Taxonomic notes, lectotype designations and new synonymies in some species of the bee genus Centris Fabricius, 1804 described by Sándor Mocsáry and Heinrich Friese (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Author Vivallo, Felipe text Zootaxa 2019 2019-07-18 4638 4 534 546 journal article 26169 10.11646/zootaxa.4638.4.4 d49f6d28-68b5-4c6c-b9e5-c842e9b198ad 1175-5326 3340466 94B0D482-30D5-487D-B2B4-AD50657DA0B8 Centris ( Melanocentris ) scutellata Friese, 1901 ( Figures 13‒16 ) Centris fusciventris scutellata Friese, 1901 . 273. Type data: According to Moure et al . (2007) the male and female syntypes are housed at ZMB , but they were not found there. A single male from the type series was found at HNHM and it is here designated lectotype . The specimen has the following data label: [light greenish square] 26 [handwritten]\ Chiriqui Mocsàry [handwritten]\ C . fusciventris v . scutellata Mocs. ³ [handwritten] det. Friese 1898 [printed]. Another male specimen from Chiriqui was found at MNHP with the following data label: [orange square label without text]\ Chiriqui \ fusciventris Mocs v. scutellata Fr. \ Museum Paris Coll. J. Pérez 1915. Despite its provenance, I cannot be confident that it really belongs to the type series. Type locality: Panama : Chiriquí province . Comments: The critical study of the type specimen allowed me to correct the subgeneric assignment for this species, transferring it from C . ( Aphemisia ) Ayala, 2002 to C . ( Melanocentris ) due the strong apical curvature of the mandible and the shape of the innermost tooth. Considering the distance between the lateral ocellus and the compound eye, C . scutellata seems to be related to C . boliviensis , C . flavilabris and C . fulva Friese, 1924 .